†family Hormotomidae Wenz 1938 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Hormotomidae

Full reference: W. Wenz. 1938. Handbuch der Paläozoologie; Gastropoda. Handbuch der Paläozoologie 1-240

Parent taxon: Murchisonioidea according to P. Bouchet et al. 2005

See also Wagner 1999

Sister taxa: Cheeneetnukiidae, Kosovoconcha, Mendelia, Murchisoniidae, Plethospiridae

Subtaxa: Catazone Coelocaulus Diplozone Gyrodoma Hormotoma Hormotomina Medfracaulus Plethospira Ptychocaulus

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Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Carboniferous of United States (19: Alabama collections)

• Devonian of Australia (5), Austria (1), Canada (9: New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Ontario), the Czech Republic (6), France (2), Kyrgyzstan (1), United States (11: California, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Ohio)

• Silurian to Devonian of Australia (1)

• Niagaran of United States (1: New York)

• Silurian of Canada (42: Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (13), the Czech Republic (9), Estonia (2), Greenland (1), Norway (1), the Russian Federation (11), Sweden (6), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (5), United States (49: Alaska, California, Maryland, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin)

• Ordovician of Australia (3), Canada (79: Manitoba, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (7), Estonia (5), Greenland (2), Norway (4), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), the United Kingdom (11), United States (157: Alaska, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming)

• Llandeilo of China (2)

• Chazy of United States (1: New York)

• Whiterockian of United States (1: California)

• Arenig of Australia (1), China (8), United States (2: Montana, Oklahoma)

• Cassinian of Canada (3: Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec), United States (28: Arkansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Vermont)

• Arenigian of United States (1: Virginia)

• Jefferson of United States (4: Missouri, Oklahoma)

• Jeffersonian of United States (2: Texas)

Total: 521 collections including 700 occurrences

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